That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKER[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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